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  • Epitome (1953)
  • 131 min | Drama
Epitome (1953)
131 min | Drama

Shusei Tokuda's starkly realistic novel about a poor girl pressed into becoming a geisha was forcefully adapted by Kaneto Shindo (Onibaba). When Ginko (Nobuko Otowa, Shindo's wife) falls in love with one of her clients, she is handily ...See moreShusei Tokuda's starkly realistic novel about a poor girl pressed into becoming a geisha was forcefully adapted by Kaneto Shindo (Onibaba). When Ginko (Nobuko Otowa, Shindo's wife) falls in love with one of her clients, she is handily rebuffed by the young man's wealthy family, and left to wander from geisha house to geisha house. See less
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Apr 8, 1953 (Japan)
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46 cast members
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Sumiko Hidaka
Somefuku Somefuku   See fewer
Isuzu Yamada
Tamiko Tamiko   See fewer
Sô Yamamura
Wakabayashi Wakabayashi   See fewer
Akira Yamanouchi
Kuramochi (as Akira Yamauchi) Kuramochi (as Akira Yamauchi)   See fewer
Ichirô Sugai
Isogai Isogai   See fewer
Masao Shimizu
Nagase Nagase   See fewer
Yuriko Hanabusa
Kuramochi's mother Kuramochi's mother   See fewer
Sadako Sawamura
Isogai's wife Isogai's wife   See fewer
Kyôko Asagiri
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Yumeko Aizome
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Fusako Maki
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Yumi Takano
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Fukuko Sayo
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Chikako Hosokawa
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Shin Date
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Asao Sano
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Yoshiko Sakurai
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Miwa Saitô
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Tomoko Naraoka
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Sumie Sasaki
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Keiko Tanaka
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Fumiko Shimada
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Noriko Matsuyama
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Harue Shimizu
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Hisako Hara
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Fudeko Tanaka
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Kumeko Otowa
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Ruriko Hitomi
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